Once again the DotConferences team organised a really nice one-day one-track conference in Paris. Thanks a lot to them, to the speakers and the audience.
DotScale 2018 was a very fine edition!

They managed to have very nice and experienced speakers, from diverse backgrounds (academic, industry, tech advocates) and with various subjects. It was my fifth DotConference since I live in Paris! Wow time flies by.

You will find below a few notes of the day if you want to have a general idea of what happened there.

Once again this year the great staff of pgDay Paris did it all. We had a very good pgDay Paris 2018 edition. A great location in the center of Paris near Beaubourg. A diverse and interesting line-up. And as usual, a joyful community.

PostgreSQL is known to be a very good relational database system. Because it is robust, because it has all the features that modern RDBMS databases systems expects. On top of that it is an open source and free software with a very wide community behind...

After more than 3 years trusting Nginx to serve customer traffic I decided to list here a few common use cases I came up with. First in my previous working experience where I migrated the public facing webservers from Apache to Nginx. And now in my current job where I configure and maintain most of the Nginx configurations.

The following tips are common configurations which could easily be reusable or useful for other people. However all the following examples being from my experience might not be the best solution so please do not hesitate to comment my choices at the end of this article :).

I had the chance to attend Velocity conf 2016 in Amsterdam thanks to my current employer Trainline (formerly Capitaine Train). This article is a minimal transcript of my journey there during the talk sessions.

Docker all the things \o/

You have probably seen people running all kind of things inside containers.
Anything really, like a famous UI
editor
or a Tor
relay
for example.

When it comes to a server stack, some people would like to see Docker
containers running in production everywhere. It can be a great idea if
your production infrastructure is designed to run containers.

What if you still run dedicated instances or bare metal machines? Would
you even want to use it?